* Posts by Pan.

9 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2012

NSA 'hunted sysadmins' to find CAT PHOTOS, high-level passwords

Pan.
Unhappy

A sysadmin death by "suicide?"

May I offer to this discussion the "suicide" of the Vodafone’s - Greece, Network Planning Manager, Kostas Tsalikidis, after it was reveiled that the Greek's prime ministers, head of army etc etc (hundrends of key people) mobile phones were beeing tapped, by subverting the lawlful call intercepts?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-athens-affair

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Tsalikidis

The question is whether he killed himself for real (if he was indeed cooperating with some foreign agency) or whether he "killed himself" because he found out who has installed the root kit s/w. Access log files from the facility the code was installed was removed, before revealing the issue, by Vodafone management!!!

So a hero or a traitor? Anyway he seems to be one of the first real world kills in the cyberware game...

10 years ago these were regarded by many, especially those dont wanting to see the facts, as consiracy theories, after Snowden all this has changed.

Turkish TV presenter canned for flashing too much cleavage

Pan.

sexy or sex slaves??

An interesting attempt to cultural relativism but western values identify "sexiness" with the freedom to be sexy (or not).

So if you are referring to the Ottoman Empire;s way of being sexy, you should take into account that sex slavery is not sexy (by definition), by western values. So the members of the Harem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harem while being extremely sexy (with eunuch guards and only of course for the sultan) were also being 100% slaves at the same time. I thing you can find this kind of "sexiness" in today Saudi Arabia as well.

Sultan for a couple of hundrend years did not have even one free wife, they were are all "pooled" from a pool of slaves! So not a good example about being sexy or progressive.

KEEP CALM and Carry On: PRISM itself is not a big deal

Pan.
Flame

and lets not forrget

and lets not forget NSA is a classic spying agency not an anterrotist organisation. Terrorism did not existent in the 60s but NSA surely existed.

NSA is not about the "bad guys" is about anyone who has something to offer to the US National Security interests. It this is quite vague

Pan.

(US) National Security can be also industrial espionage, economic insider info, etc.

We seem to forget the Elephant in the Room.

While a lot of noise have being made with regard if PRISM has access to US citizens data we seem to blissfully forget that its in the core role of NSA and to the interest of the US National Security to have extensive personal/cloud data access if you are not a US citizen, equivalent to simple old school espionage:

- UK/German/Chinese/Japanese industrial competitor of a critical technology which gives US an edge over the rest industrial world (name it! could be Airbus, Eurofighter, Semiconductor industry, whatever)

- UK/German/Chinese/Japanese financial competitor of a critical sector (commodities, oil supply, stock info, companies insider info)

- UK/German/Chinese/Japanese foreign policy and deference planning + or 'personal' politicians/military/decision makers data.

All the above are not against the US Law, and of course are in the core of NSA activities and scope, not recently but since its beginning. The only difference is that they did not had immediate access to data before the Internet and especially the Cloud.

So we seem to be wrongly focusing to the US citizens liberties being taken away, while all the rest of us, non US citizens, can be data mined legally at any moment.

It could be a huge blow to the Cloud, your data is actually NSA data and we dont seem to talk about that.

BBC suspends CTO after £100m is wasted on doomed IT system

Pan.

Siemens???

LOL - Siemens??? and IT integration??? I imagine the procurement process was crystal clear, in the usual Siemens manner of that era.

COLD FUSION is BACK with 'anomalous heat' claim

Pan.

Rossi cv from wikipedia

"Andrea Rossi was born in 1950 on the 3rd of June, in Milan. In 1973, Rossi graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan,[6] with a thesis on Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and its interrelationship with Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology.[7][unreliable source?][8][9]"

ok i thing this is enough!

NHS Trust ditches in-house servers, chucks 15TB into the cloud

Pan.

xmm

15tb on 90(!!!) serves? somebody has not done its virtualisation exercise the density of data per server is impressively low! seems an outdated infrastrcutre

Going viral 9,500 years ago: 'English descended from ancient Turkey'

Pan.

Correct title should be on Minor Asia, Turkey or modern states names have nothing to do with the actual area where the common anchenstor of HindoEuropean was born.

The geographic location of what was ancient turkey was very much very different from modern turkey. Until 1922 Asia Minor was a mix of civilisations and people, Turkish, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian, etc. From the 1922 exchange of populations (nice way to refer to organised ethnic cleansing) only Asia Minor (modern Turkey) is ethnically Turk.

Also should be again noted that Turkish themselves are not a HindoEuropean Language but a Altaic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language

Amount of meat we eat will barely affect future climate change

Pan.
Meh

Only partial picture

While your article might be accurate regarding meat consumption and CO2 levels, one must understand this (CO2 reduction) is only one of the arguments vegans and vegetarians are shielding towards reduced meet consumption.

One very significant argument is that our human bodies are simply not evolved into consuming the amount of meat products, included in the western mans diet nowdays. For thousands of years (actually until 100 or 200 years ago) the level of meat consumption was much less that the present one in the western world thus a reduction in meet consumption will also have a personal positive health effect.